As much as IBM Systems Directors once setup up is a great tool for managing your IBM Power systems, it in that initial set-up period is a complete pain to debug. I as much as anyone else completely hate it when its not working. As its the base...

I've spent some time over the last few months working with a IBM SmartCloud Entry system running on a IBM POWER P740 connecting with storage services via IBM Systems Director to a V7000 Storage system. Setting it up and connecting to all the other IBM...

Just completed the move of the POWER and AIX Hands-on Movies to YouTube videos - after pruning we have 97 of them. This means you can watch them on your mobile Smartphone and Tablets in addition to your workstation/personal computer. You can find them all...

Fourteen new movies/Video's on System Director on YouTube I have just last week uploaded 14 new System Director movies that were previously a whole day Technical University session and I thought it a good idea to share these with every body. It comes to about...

Hi, Rob McNelly, the esteemed POWER7 Champion, sent me a really good questions and I thought would make a good blog as I get asked this about once a month. I have cut down the questions a but but it is a two parts: His customer is thinking about putting...

Below wiki link is to show you step by step on how to forward System Director events under PureFlex environment to either Tivoli EIF Probe / SNMP Probe. Steps on how to forward System Director events under PureFlex environment to either Tivoli EIF Probe /...

The new VIOS Shared Storage Pools 3 (SSP3) arrived a month ago and I have all my VIOS updated now to VIOS 2.2.2.1 plus fixes. This brings with it the regular VIOS improvements but also new features for SSP3 including: Better pool use stats for example see...

At a recent POWER & AIX Workshop, I was challenged when I stated that you can download IBM Systems Director (ISD) and run it at no costs. Granted: If you want IBM Support for ISD functions then you do need to purchase the license and SWMA for every...

It has bee a long few weeks traveling to Dublin, Las Vegas, Slovenia, Germany and Sweden to give lots of presentations. Six Weeks and five countries and the expenses are piling up on my desk. I was presenting a core set of topics like POWER7+ announcement...

Below is a example of how you can perform a simple load to the processors so that you can test the extra feature of AEM. You have Active Energy Monitor enabled, the system is idle and the clock cycles of your cores have been dropped. So how do you go about...

I suddenly could not get AIX updates to work via my NIM server. The problem number DNZPAX075E just means the NIM command failed for unknown reasons. Not very helpful when you have a ISD Server, NIM Server and a Target AIX Server and the problem could be...

This is part 2 of Systems Director licensing or at least working out what you are doing with System Director that requires a license. In part 1, we looked at listing (via the command line) the POWER machines that Systems Director was connected too. This time...

I have long thought it is rather silly that IBM Systems Director can't give you a list the licenses that you should have! It does, after all, know what machines it is controlling and the data is in the database. Perhaps, that will come in the future. What...

If working on System director and you are trying to import your data source and you see the following error - [scesd01:root] /root # smcli mkdatasource -c svc -f /root/.ssh/id_rsa -v V7000 -i 172.19.80.241 Adding the data source ... DNZSAL234E : An unknown...

As mentioned you can use SCE to manage your environments, deploy, capture systems and import new appliances. But first you need to ensure a few things are set up, s o click 'Configure the Cloud' - From here we can do a number of important tasks, these are...

IBM SmartCloud Entry is cloud management software that is built on the vitalisation foundation framework, this is the base software that a number of IBM Clouds solutions work from. It is designed to enhance platform management for the end-user with simple...

Recently, I delivered a 7.5 hour Systems Director 6.3 Instructor lead demo at IBM Zurich - that gives us 25 more people ready to dive into using it. It is a very polished building and the IBM Forum is amazing and they even have IBM food :-) I had to take a...

Systems Director 6.3.1 is available This includes a fix I needed. On a completely fresh install the Update Manager will not work with the NIM server for AIX updates due to a bug that forgets to create /export/um_lpp_source on the NIM server - oops! Fixed...

AIX 6.1 TL7 includes IBM Systems Director Common Agent (cas agent). It is installed as part of the System Management Client Software bundle which is part of the default install options. Unfortunately, this new component introduce 2 small bugs including one...